Help With Family Trip

[Duke 59]

We have been at the lake for several days now and the family is having a great time, but I have a question.

I took the small grandkids out this morning andcaught a bunch of small bluegills. They had fun and I kept 10 of them to use tomorrow for stripers.

I'm wondering what type of location I should try them at and best technique? We are staying close to point #4. Should I be trying points or back in coves?

Thanks for any help.

[Feathers and Fins]

Main Lake humps and along the channel edges

[brosborough]

I just got done chasing the striper around for a week. It's tuff right now. Nothing seems to be schooling and breaking for top water fun. If I were fishing live bait, from what I saw this week, I'd try the following places. The mouth of the bay for Lost Bridge South campground. You'll have to troll around a lot, but they are there. I think they just moved up. I had not even seen any striper guides there until Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. By Saturday I counted 6 boats all right there in a pile. The fish are there.

I also checked one of Feathers tips. They are there in front of point 3, but everything I saw was pretty deep. I didn't troll around but for maybe 45 minutes. Feathers gave a pretty large area to search and not knowing the bottom well I just drove all around. I never found any schools in 20' FOW but did see them Down deep in 80' FOW. Again, you'll have to troll around a lot.

I caught my striper on top water. Point 6 and the one beside it. And they were up close to the bank. Maybe 20-30' away from the shore. Was sitting in abou 40-50' of water and just casting to the bank. Might try there as well.

Last place I saw fish but didn't catch any were the two little islands out by point 6. There is a small one to the right, if you are leaving point six and a small one out front before you get to Rocky branch and that great big island. Saw the fish, don't know what they were though as nothing ever surfaced for me.

Other than that, I saw nothing in Shaddox, Ventris, Fords, Cedar. Lot of posts saying to go there but I never saw a thing. Couple of those are pretty large areas to check. My best guesses of where to look were wrong if the fish are there.

[nathanhooper]

Were those fish off point 3 suspended in that 80' of water? Curious as to how deep you were seeing them there.

[brosborough]

Yes. About 10 feet above the trees I saw. Only found the one school. As I would zig zag around I kept run I across them. Think it was the same one in different spots.